Favorite Quotes from non-knife people.

Best Friend/Knife guy that's to lazy to read a book...:
"You know thinner edges will hold their edge longer.."
"Serrations are better for wood than a straight edge..."
"I don't like to keep my knives too sharp, they dull faster when their sharp..."

My Parents:
"Why are you so violent?"
"Your going to end up living as a hermit in Alaska"
 
I showed my friend my spyderco. He said ew that thing is too stubby. I ask him to pull out his he pulls out a $2 knife with blade play so bad if you shake the knife you can hear it wobble. I suggested he buy a spyderco and he says no they are ugly and a knife is a knife. I mean a knife is a knife??? Thats like saying a house is a house comparing a cardboard box to a mansion or a price of crap car to a Ferrari. Anyone got a reply to shut him up? Nothing mean though he's my freind
 
Spyderman99 said:
I showed my friend my spyderco. He said ew that thing is too stubby. I ask him to pull out his he pulls out a $2 knife with blade play so bad if you shake the knife you can hear it wobble. I suggested he buy a spyderco and he says no they are ugly and a knife is a knife. I mean a knife is a knife??? Thats like saying a house is a house comparing a cardboard box to a mansion or a price of crap car to a Ferrari. Anyone got a reply to shut him up? Nothing mean though he's my freind
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use the comparisons you just made haha
also do a cutting demonstration, that's helped me get some people to see the light
 
Spyderman99 said:
I showed my friend my spyderco. He said ew that thing is too stubby. I ask him to pull out his he pulls out a $2 knife with blade play so bad if you shake the knife you can hear it wobble. I suggested he buy a spyderco and he says no they are ugly and a knife is a knife. I mean a knife is a knife??? Thats like saying a house is a house comparing a cardboard box to a mansion or a price of crap car to a Ferrari. Anyone got a reply to shut him up? Nothing mean though he's my freind
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I'm sure he has hobbies that he spends money on. Maybe he is a gamer. A graphics card is a graphics card. Maybe he collects comic books. A reprint is the same as an original. You get my drift.
 
Back in high school a friend had just bought a Swiss Army knife and was showing it around in the pizzaria we were in. One guy takes the knife and asks, "Is it sharp?" and immediately runs the edge across the back of his hand. As I watched him bring the knife to his hand, I was sure he was joking around. But, nope, he slid it across his hand nice and smooth, and pop!--his skin opened up very deep. He started freaking out, and the owner of the shop kicked us out. I grabbed a handful of napkins and we did our best to stop the bleeding.

The funny part is that his parents were so uptight that he was scared to tell them about the cut, so he never got stitches (which he clearly needed). And so for the rest of his life he has a vagina on the back of his hand.
 
RustyTang said:
Back in high school a friend had just bought a Swiss Army knife and was showing it around in the pizzaria we were in. One guy takes the knife and asks, "Is it sharp?" and immediately runs the edge across the back of his hand. As I watched him bring the knife to his hand, I was sure he was joking around. But, nope, he slid it across his hand nice and smooth, and pop!--his skin opened up very deep. He started freaking out, and the owner of the shop kicked us out. I grabbed a handful of napkins and we did our best to stop the bleeding.

The funny part is that his parents were so uptight that he was scared to tell them about the cut, so he never got stitches (which he clearly needed). And so for the rest of his life he has a vagina on the back of his hand.
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Wow. How did his parents not see the gaping glory hole on the back of his hand? I've seen this happen a few times. "Is it sharAAAAAAAAAH OH GOD I'M BLEEDING"
 
This happened awhile back. I was getting off of work and was filling up my truck for the trip home. I had a Mora Clipper MG on my belt (love this knife.) There was a father and maybe 6 year old son pumping gas next to me. As I walked into the gas station I heard the little boy behind me yelling at his dad... "Daddy daddy that mans got a knife!!! daddy daddy why does he have a knife???!!! etc etc..." I turned to look and the father quickly hushed his son and said, "Because he needs it." After the father told the son this his attention went elsewhere. That was actually one of the few times someone said anything about me belt carrying a knife.
 
A number of years ago I worked for the NRA. In one of our staff meetings, my boss sat down next to me and produced a huge knife. When I commented on its size he explained that just a day or so before, a punk grabbed a woman's hand bag from off her shoulder and took off running. My boss went right after him. He finally cornered the guy and produced the knife (don't know what model it was, but this was back in the early 80s). The guy then surrendered the purse and ran off.

"What would you have done if he'd pulled out a knife of his own?" I queried.

He smiled and shrugged.

"I would have shot him!"
 
One that makes me smile every time I remember it. Someone asked if I carry big knives because I'm compensating for a lack of size elsewhere. My wife quickly replied, "Nope, definitely not that!" I wasn't sure weather to be embarassed, or proud. A bit of both, I guess. :D
 
Several years back I needed some paper for the printer. I asked the guy I was working with where they kept it, and he brought me to a brand new box with one of those thick pastic bands on it. He started pulling and yanking on the band, but of course that did't do anything. So took out my Kershaw Leek and flicked it open. Before I could even move toward the box he jumped back, literally put his hands up, and said "I've got to stay away from you." I just looked at him strangely and cut open the plastic, closed the knife, and grabbed some paper. He never mentioned it again or anything, but it was just an odd reaction.

I was at a fish store once that I used to visit quite a lot (had a cool 90 gal saltwater tank, my other money pit). I noticed one of the ladies working there was struggling to open a pile of boxes using her key instead of a knife. I pulled out my Grip, still closed, and offered it to her. Her eyes got real big as she said "No thank you, I'm afraid of knives." I didn't know what to say to that one.
 
Worst questions from non knife guys; "Can I use your knife?"
When I was in Jr High School everybody proudly carried a Buck.110(the Knife of the 80's)
We had to have them for Ag & welding. Nobody ever pulled a knife on anybody. The Ag teacher would beat the crap out of you & the coaches would practice there batting skills with a paddle. I got paddled up to my Senior year & I deserved it
My Daddy taught me as a boy to always keep a knife & always keep it sharp.
I am only 41, but LORD how times & people have changed. If they catch a kid in school with a knife now they arrest them &permanently expel them. But they probably had a knife on them to stab some other kid that owed them money for pills. America is MESSED UP.
Sorry for the rant, but back to the original, as a foreman I was re modding Mobile Homes with 4 grown men, city folk mostly, from 35-52 & you know how many had a knife on them besides there utility blades? None!
Bro back in my older days my band played Biker bars & rallies all over Ms. & La. and we all had knives on, & there wasnt anybody getting cut up.
I wear Fixed blades even when I have to go to town, & I always will.
Why do I wear a fixed blade? I mean you don't know?
 
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Everytime I lend one of my knives to a friend, the "is this thing legal?" question always pops up (like some nasty spam). I always reply with a "Nope, but now it has your fingerprints so I can start my killing spree" and grab it back using a cloth or a tissue. This freaks them out a bit, just before I start laughing
 
I like to display knives all around the house, yeah I'm single,lol. I had a NWA TK knife on my center channel speaker, and when my sister came over this past weekend she said " why have you got that knife just sitting up there opened like that". I just told her.... because you can't close a fixed blade.
 
I have carried some sort of knife, from junk dime store blades in my youth, to Sebenza's, Hinderer's, and other mid-price knives, my entire life. The only time I dont have a knife in my possession would be when I am undressed.
I have been married to the same woman from 25 years who is fully aware of my knife habit and carrying ways.

And it still irritates me when she has something she needs cut. She turns and says thoses words that make me see red almost...."Do you have a knife on you?" lol

And yes, I have given her knives to use. She wont. I think she could cut herself with a butterknife.
 
corwise said:
Her eyes got real big as she said "No thank you, I'm afraid of knives." I didn't know what to say to that one.
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How about: "hopefully you are good in bed, because you would have to be lousy in the kitchen!"


Kowalsky said:
Everytime I lend one of my knives to a friend, the "is this thing legal?" question always pops up (like some nasty spam). I always reply with a "Nope, but now it has your fingerprints so I can start my killing spree" and grab it back using a cloth or a tissue. This freaks them out a bit, just before I start laughing
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Maniacally, right? Just to freak them out even more!
 
corwise said:
I was at a fish store once that I used to visit quite a lot (had a cool 90 gal saltwater tank, my other money pit). I noticed one of the ladies working there was struggling to open a pile of boxes using her key instead of a knife. I pulled out my Grip, still closed, and offered it to her. Her eyes got real big as she said "No thank you, I'm afraid of knives." I didn't know what to say to that one.
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I would say maybe she's had a bad experience with them, if it weren't for my sister.

She's oddly terrified of knives and has rarely even touched them. Not once has she ever been hurt, threatened or scared by one, yet she fears them.
 
I was doing some home repair work at somebodies house that I've known since we were both in elementary school and I said "check out my new knife",and I showed it to him and he said "I don't like weapons".
 
My Mother when she came over and I had 3 or 4 knives I've been messing with out: "Son why are you making all these knives? apply your self to something there is actually a market for!".
 
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